There certain youtuber voices that I really appreciate. Markiplier, Game Theory, Internet Historian, I did a thing, SmallAnt, and Summoning Salt are my favorite

There certain youtuber voices that I really appreciate. Markiplier, Game Theory, Internet Historian, I did a thing, SmallAnt, and Summoning Salt are my favorite content creators recently. I noticed I like long form content essays a lot and educational/analysis type content has a smoothness in tone I appreciate. Sometimes layering it with rain helps too. I look for content that seems interesting in the moment but doesn't necessarily make me feel like I have to rewind if I miss anything. It's the best to just leave on in the background. The youtube algorithm has been pushing 2+ hour iceberg streams to me recently as well. Speedruns and Summoning Salt videos are classics I go to when I can't find anything specific and don't want to go searching. The Games Done Quick format is amazing. 100% speedruns are a solid category. I rarely know the game, so it hits that perfect place of interesting when I start and don't care about finishing and can leave on in the background for days without worrying about anything too scary or serious. I'm sure there are games with startling audio or video, but Games Done Quick is an event where they marathon different people speedrunning different games back to back on twitch and all of the donation money goes to charity. This summer they raised over 3 million dollars for charity. Additionally, I can safely assume the streams are going to be kid friendly so I know there's nothing too crazy that can happen. I don't personally care if speedrunners are family friendly or not, but family friendly content is generally smoother in tone which is helpful for falling asleep. SmallAnt focuses heavily on Nintendo games and from what I understand Nintendo has fairly strict rules for what's allowed by content creators. I don't agree with it from a content moderation standpoint, but at the same time, it makes content much more easily searchable and predictable when I need something neutral for sleep. Glitch runs and TAS (tool assisted speedruns) are cool too because they incorporate bots and technical exploits like memory overflow and race condition logic errors into breaking game logic in order to complete a speedrun fast. Pokemon yellow is crazy, it has been brought down to 1 minute 18second for the entire game. I do pay for youtube premium so I don't have to worry about ads. Ads can be disruptive and wake me up. Most youtubers have a playlist of their streams which is a nice set and forget so I don't wake up to weird recommendations.